Additional InformationThomas Wood was born in Ottawa. Primarily self-taught, he received some training from Franklin Brownell and Frederick Horsman Varley at the Ottawa Art Association. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in May 1943 and served as a war artist from February 1944 to March 1946. He participated in the Normandy campaign and was present on D-Day. Subsequently, he saw service on board a number of motor torpedo boats, frigates, and corvettes. Posted to Newfoundland near the end of the war, he painted a number of canvases there. After demobilization, he returned to Ottawa and worked as a designer.